Day 1

Triton / Patterns Summer Symposium

Day 3

Day Two

July 21 • 23 • 28, 1998

What's a WebQuest? What kinds of topics lend themselves to the format? How do I find useful resources on the Web? How do I engage my students in higher level thinking? How can I adjust for different levels of English proficiency?

Principles
The What's and Why's
Procedures
The How-To's
Practice
Learning by Doing

WebQuest Introduction


WebQuest About WebQuests
High / Middle School version
Elementary version

Using the WebQuest Templates

Page 39 -

Grabbing Web Pages

Page 42 -

Student WebQuest Template

Page 44 -

Teacher WebQuest Template


Building Blocks for WebQuests



Choosing a Project Topic and Task

Page 46 -

Topic/Task Scoring Sheet

Write down your tentative topic

Becoming a Power Searcher

Page 49 -

Starting Points for Exploration

Alta Vista Simple Search

Alta Vista Advanced Search

Searching Exercise

Becoming an Organized Searcher

Page 51 -

Managing Your Bookmarks

Page 54 -

Saving Your Bookmarks

Look for resources relevant to your project

Evaluating Information Resources

Resources for Web Page Evaluation


Intermediate Web Editing

Page 57 -

Creating Anchors

Page 60 -

Linking to a Local Page


Engaging Higher-Level Thinking Skills

Page 46 -

Topic/Task Scoring Sheet

Score your task

LUNCH

Strategies for Kid-Sizing the Web

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Using Child-Oriented Search Engines

Page 63 -

Linking to an Online Dictionary

Page 65 -

Rewriting Pages to Control Vocabulary

Page 67 -

Translating Pages into Spanish

Look for child-oriented resources

Add a link to an online dictionary

Beautifying Your Pages

Page 70 -

Grabbing Graphics

Page 72 -

Sources of Clip Art

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Inserting Images

Page 73 -

Getting Images Ready for the Web

Page 74 -

Cropping Images

Page 76 -

Converting Images to GIFs and JPEGs

Enhance your home page and project page

Grab your portrait from gallery (group 1) 1, 2, or 3, (group 2) 4, 5, or 6, (group 3) 1, 2, 3, or 4.

Developing Your Action Plan
Baseline Evaluation Data for
Elementary, Middle and High School


Begin work on your action plan, using these downloadable templates: August Calendar, September Calendar, Action Plan

Uploading Your Files

Uploading Files with Fetch

Upload your work in progress
Session Evaluation Form for Elementary Day 2


Day 1

Triton / Patterns Summer Symposium

Day 3